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From: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
To: Deon George <deon.george@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature Enhancement Idea.
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:26:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c07716ae0909230126w36b3309fqe9ae8ccec0db49c3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b5e291e0909222317q47ae36d4la470f17ec3902124@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 8:17 AM, Deon George <deon.george@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm not sure if this is the right place, but I thought I'd post my
> idea and maybe somebody will either redirect me to the right place, or
> give me that "that wont happen".
>
> Im fairly new to GIT (wish I had discovered it long ago), and I really
> like using it - great work guys/garls :)
>
> My idea is to enhance GIT to support (I'll call it) development
> "layers". The current design of GIT is that the working repository and
> working directory assume that all files belong together in the same
> project. I would like to see GIT go 3D and support layers, so that
> files (and/or file content) can belong to multiple repositories (or
> considered unique projects), even though the working tree presents all
> files as if they were one.

Perhaps you could have a look at "git replace" that is now in the master branch.
It could be improved to provide different "views" of a single repository.
I don't think that alone it would provide everything you want though.

Best regards,
Christian.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-23  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-23  6:17 Feature Enhancement Idea Deon George
2009-09-23  8:26 ` Christian Couder [this message]
2009-09-23  9:06 ` Johan Herland
2009-09-23 11:12   ` Deon George
2009-09-23 18:17     ` Ciprian Dorin, Craciun
2009-09-23 23:19       ` Johan Herland
2009-09-23 20:08 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-09-24  5:52   ` Deon George
2009-09-24  5:56 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-24  9:25   ` Deon George
2009-09-24 16:45     ` Eric Raible

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